Produced in ten-day period, the photographs belonging to his “Palma” series, dedicated to his home town, capture different settings around the city, proving that whilst these places have hardly changed over time, people have. Whilst the urban spaces and buildings retain the same appearance, the people mutate and parade through a seemingly similar set.

Squares, avenues or narrow streets in the city’s historic centre are captured by the Mallorcan photographer in his search for unusual details and also for things commonplace, routine, a kind of intangible time which sticks like a parasite to the walls of that which is real.

Artist biography

After training as a photographer at the Richter-Elisava school in Barcelona, he returned to Palma de Mallorca, where he set up a studio and has lived ever since. Aside from his facet as an artist, he has also worked on advertising and illustration projects and collaborated with artists, art galleries and communications media. On a technical level, Font produces a large part of his photographic work in black and white, using Kodak Tri-X A film to attain contract and definition.

He never manipulates his photos; their composition is exactly as this Mallorcan photographer decides before shooting, along the purest lines of documentary photographers. Font develops his work around people, anonymous faces portrayed in everyday scenes, as is reflected in his series devoted to cities like Palma, Havana or Tel Aviv, his most recent project.